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Piel de Sapo Melon

The latest melon I’ve tried is called a Piel de Sapo. It looks kind of like an egg-shaped watermelon, but it’s smaller than a watermelon and closer to a honeydew in size. I had no idea if it was ripe, so I just trusted the store to put out ripe ones ready to eat.

I sliced it open and the color was white with a bit of greenish tinge near the rind. From the looks of the seed area it looked to be a bit overripe. The taste was fine though, it was perfectly ripe for eating. Because it was so fleshy I could use the larger sized melon baller and the job went by quickly. The melon balls came out smooth and round. It’s similar in color and texture to a lot of the other new melons I’ve been trying, but the taste of this one was really good, almost as good as the Galia melon.